Strategic sustainability practices in intercropping-based family farming systems: study on rural communities of Iran
Abstract This paper reports a realistic analysis of a region using Grounded Theory (GT) to provide a sustainable model for family farming systems based on the intercropping system in rural communities of Iran. Furthermore, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) was applied to assign weights to...
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| author | Pouria Ataei Afshin Mottaghi Dastenaei Hamid Karimi Nasim Izadi Meysam Menatizadeh |
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| description | Abstract This paper reports a realistic analysis of a region using Grounded Theory (GT) to provide a sustainable model for family farming systems based on the intercropping system in rural communities of Iran. Furthermore, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) was applied to assign weights to the criteria and sub-criteria of intercropping and monocropping systems. According to the model, the main phenomenon was “sustainability in the family farming system based on intercropping”. In this model, the causal factors were found to include behavioral and attitudinal motivators. Micro- and macro-factors were identified as the interfering factors in family farming systems based on intercropping. Social factors, economic components, and environmental potentials were the contextual factors of this system. Finally, the consequences included the conceptual development and evolution of sustainability, socioeconomic transformation, and ecological-environmental transformation. The results of FAHP showed that the environmental criterion was ranked the first among all criteria underpinning the sustainability of the intercropping system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc1384cd939d4b4683514fe13ec1db8b2023-11-20T09:14:59ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222023-10-0113111310.1038/s41598-023-45454-zStrategic sustainability practices in intercropping-based family farming systems: study on rural communities of IranPouria Ataei0Afshin Mottaghi Dastenaei1Hamid Karimi2Nasim Izadi3Meysam Menatizadeh4Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares UniversityDepartment of Political Geography, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kharazmi UniversityDepartment of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, University of ZabolDepartment of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina UniversityDepartment of Agricultural Extension and Education, School of Agriculture, Shiraz UniversityAbstract This paper reports a realistic analysis of a region using Grounded Theory (GT) to provide a sustainable model for family farming systems based on the intercropping system in rural communities of Iran. Furthermore, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) was applied to assign weights to the criteria and sub-criteria of intercropping and monocropping systems. According to the model, the main phenomenon was “sustainability in the family farming system based on intercropping”. In this model, the causal factors were found to include behavioral and attitudinal motivators. Micro- and macro-factors were identified as the interfering factors in family farming systems based on intercropping. Social factors, economic components, and environmental potentials were the contextual factors of this system. Finally, the consequences included the conceptual development and evolution of sustainability, socioeconomic transformation, and ecological-environmental transformation. The results of FAHP showed that the environmental criterion was ranked the first among all criteria underpinning the sustainability of the intercropping system.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45454-z |
| spellingShingle | Pouria Ataei Afshin Mottaghi Dastenaei Hamid Karimi Nasim Izadi Meysam Menatizadeh Strategic sustainability practices in intercropping-based family farming systems: study on rural communities of Iran Scientific Reports |
| title | Strategic sustainability practices in intercropping-based family farming systems: study on rural communities of Iran |
| title_full | Strategic sustainability practices in intercropping-based family farming systems: study on rural communities of Iran |
| title_fullStr | Strategic sustainability practices in intercropping-based family farming systems: study on rural communities of Iran |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategic sustainability practices in intercropping-based family farming systems: study on rural communities of Iran |
| title_short | Strategic sustainability practices in intercropping-based family farming systems: study on rural communities of Iran |
| title_sort | strategic sustainability practices in intercropping based family farming systems study on rural communities of iran |
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